Sam Owens - Assignment 1 Step 2

Fragment Combinations

Fragment 8 Warp Drive:

A device that allows space crafts to travel faster than light allowing for deep space travel and exploration.  This could lead to finding new sources of life and colonization of new worlds for humans to live on.

Reference: Star Trek (TV show)

12. Electronic Patches placed behind the ear translates what a person says into another language and translates what a person says in another language into the language the user speaks. 
Reference: http://www.italia.it/en/home.html

4. Inventing a way to live on other planets such as Mars, could drastically influence the world's economy with the added resources, of course transporation via space, and countless other aspects of life on earth.

http://www.iflscience.com/space/more-evidence-possibility-ancient-life-mars

Fragment Combination 1: Space travel develops where humans can go explore new planets which could be occupied by other life forms.  Translators would be developed so communication between different species is possible, which could lead to trade and new knowledge.

11. With the creation of new lighter, stronger metal, buildings could be built way over ten times the typical skyscraper height today. Years from now whole cities would be miles above the ground, splitting society literally in two due to the newer “floating” cities being affordable to only the upper class. (“Star Wars”)

Fragment 6 Hoverboard:

A transportation device that is powered by jets which travels above the ground at fast speeds and is easy to transport when not in use.  It becomes a quick form of travel and could be used for extreme sports.

Reference: Spiderman (moive/comic)

7. A machine able to store the energy of lightning would revolutionize how the world would power just about everything. It would be cheap and essentially limitless resulting in far less pollution, less harm to the environment, creating a cleaner more streamlined version of the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvesting_lightning_energy

Fragment Combination 2: Cities are created of tall buildings that reach to the sky.  The buildings act as lightning rods as well to store energy for the whole city.  People would use hover boards to travel between different levels of the city quickly.

·                     Miracle drug cures cancer; causes some to develop super powers.

·                     Hour Man

Fragment 5 Robotic Prosthetics:

Prosthetics made out of synthetic materials that are controlled by the user’s nervous system, and function as good as or better than the original body part.  Some people might amputate themselves to get these stronger limbs.

Reference: Deus Ex Human Revolution( video game), Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)

Fragment 7 Virtual Reality:

A reality created through a computer that can change a user’s environment to anything he/she wants which allows the user to enjoy scenery he/she cannot normally or easily visit.  This would lower tourism since anyone could visit anywhere inside their virtual reality room.

Reference: Star Trek (TV show)

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Fragment Combination 3:  When the miracle drug gives people super powers it becomes an expensive drug that healthy people take in attempt to gain superpowers.  For people who cannot get superpowers from the drug they turn to robotic prosthetics to make them stronger.  To train their powers, people do so in a virtual reality to not cause any real damage if something goes wrong.  People can also create scenarios in the virtual reality in which they can use their powers as heroes or villains, and they can team up or fight against others in the virtual reality.